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  • Unfinished Business

    By Penney Sanders

    When the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) was enacted in 1990, a founding principle was that “no child shall remain in a failing school…”.

    At that time the public perception was that Kentucky was full of failing schools. While there was little data to quantify [...]

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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:34pm EST

  • Wis. teacher's aide accused of having sex with 12-year-old boy

    This from City Pages:​ Former River Falls teacher's aide Rebecca Ann O'Malley-Tietz has been arrested and charged with first degree sexual assault of a child. The boy, a student of River Falls School District's Harbor Program, where O'Malley-Tietz worked, was 12 years old at [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:26pm EST

  • Study: Students lose ground at charters

    This from NKy.com:
    Ohio's charter schools and magnet schools get a head start on public schools, a new study asserts, because they attract kindergartners who score higher on readiness tests than theirs peers at regular public schools.

    The Ready to Learn study, a report by Policy Matters Ohio [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:19pm EST

  • Walking girl to school — and into history

    This from the Herald-Leader, Photo by Steve Ueckert:

    U.S. MARSHAL FROM KENTUCKY

    HONORED FOR ROLE IN

    INTEGRATING SOUTH

    The Norman Rockwell print titled "The Problem We All Live With" features a small, black girl walking between four very tall men.

    The little girl [...]

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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:07pm EST

  • School News from Around Kentucky

    Way to Go Ryland and Hinsdale: Kenton County schools know how to contribute to the community. Children Inc. recently recognized eight Kenton County schools as a School of Contribution at the 2009 Northern Kentucky Celebration of Philanthropy. Twenty eight schools were named School of Contribution out of the 60 schools [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:49am EST

  • What a Lecture Hall is Supposed to Look Like

    Miami's new business buliding was the venue for Doug Eder's presentation on the Joys of Assessment yesterday. Very nice. The photos show the left-hand third of the room.

    Eder, who is on the neuroscience faculty at Southern Illinois University, suggested some old school measures to [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:44am EST

  • Natural Resources

    This from Mike Thompson at Slate:
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:35pm EST

  • Pictures of Lilly


    EKU's Charlie Sweet and Hal Blythe chat up Miami's Milton Cox at the Lilly Conference. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:35pm EST

  • Student Protest Blocks Regents After 32% Tuition Hike

    This from MSNBC:
    University of Calif. OKs 32 percent tuition hike
    Some officials blocked by students from leaving UCLA building

    As hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders on Thursday voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the [...]

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:45pm EST

  • Race to the Top Guidelines

    While I've been busy being swamped by advising, evaluating, and marrying off a daughter - others have been hard at work.

    This week the US Department of Education finally released the application for Race to the Top (RTTT) grant funding. Susan Weston has the scorecard at Prichard.[...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:33am EST

  • Quick Hits

    ...starting to get caught back up after last week's wedding.

    Department of Education to request school salary data: The Department of Education is planning to require school districts receiving federal Title I stimulus money to report the salaries of teachers and staff. It is expected that the data will [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:01pm EST

  • School News from Around Kentucky

    Beshear asks some agencies to plan for 6 percent cuts this year: Gov. Steve Beshear notified some state agencies Friday to plan for 6 percent cuts to their current budgets to make up for an estimated $161 million revenue shortfall this fiscal year. However, many of the state's major spending [...]

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:04pm EST

  • Congratulations Lizzie and Rob

    ...with "Pop" and Mother of the groom, Alice Edwards [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:52pm EST

  • Sunday Stroll



    This from the Eastern Progress:
    Anglin Falls is a spectacular afternoon hike that often goes unnoticed due to its [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:06pm EST

  • Build a Value-Added Assessment System for P-12 Before Moving on to Teacher Prep Institutions

    "A key assumption of using test scores to judge teachers is that students are randomly assigned, first, to schools, and, second, to classes. Neither is true."
    Recently, there has been increased talk of holding teacher preparation institutions accountable for the performance of Kentucky teachers - in effect holding colleges [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:15am EST

  • Does CNN's Anderson Cooper Shape His News?

    Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday was supposed to be on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 the other night.

    Then, he wasn't.

    Here's the way his non-appearance rolled out, according to Holliday.

    This from Commissioner Holliday's Fast Five for Friday email:


    Anderson Cooper [...]

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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:33am EST

  • Commissioner Contemplations

    Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday is still on the road; meeting, greeting, getting to know more and more Kentuckians.

    Say what you will, but I think most Kentucky political observers will tell you that this is a necessary component of effective advocacy in the commonwealth. So much depends on [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:46am EST

  • More Travels with Shelly

    Back in May, Page One Kentucky was raising questions about the amount (and nature) of travel Jefferson County Superintendent Shelly Berman was engaed in - what with all the failing schools and other pressing business in Louisville and all.

    At Page One, Jake Payne counted "a total of" [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:33pm EST

  • Quick Hits

    Does sorting students by ability exacerbate achievement gaps?: Educators in a New Jersey district are questioning whether grouping students by ability -- called leveling or tracking -- may be perpetuating racial achievement gaps, but teachers and parents are divided on whether embracing mixed-ability classes will solve the problem. Raising expectations [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:18pm EST

  • School News from Around Kentucky

    Former Dunbar coach pleads guilty: Former Paul Laurence Dunbar High School baseball coach Mickey Marshall pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanor charges of theft "by failure to make a required disposition" involving money from the baseball booster club. Marshall, who led the Lexington school to two state championships and was [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:38pm EST

  • Evangelists stir up controversy among students

    Students have returned to the plaza today to confront the preacher who caused a stir over the past two days by barking condemnations at all who would listen. Yesterday, students chose to return the favor.

    But according to the PinPoint Evangelism calendar, the preacher is not scheduled to return [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:40am EST

  • Free Speech Zone: Alive and Well at EKU

    I had heard about this guy.
    When the recent flap over free speech on campus errupted and EKU's "Free Speech Zone" was misinterpreted by campus police as precluding students from protesting outside of certain designated areas, President Whitlock clarified that the restriction only applies to folks who were not' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:21am EST

  • Happy 275th Birthday Dan'l

    This from the Adventures of Daniel Boone:
    Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:34am EST

  • Teach Your Teachers Well

    This from the New York Times:
    Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, recently called for sweeping changes to the way we select and train teachers. He’s right. If we really want good schools, we need to create a critical mass of great teachers. And [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:18am EST

  • Judge sets Feb. 1 trial for former U of L dean

    Felner faces fraud, tax evasion, money laundering charges

    This from Nancy at C-J:

    A trial date has been set for former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner, who was indicted last year on 10 counts of mail fraud, money-laundering conspiracy and income tax evasion.

    The trial is [...]

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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:00am EST

  • Kentucky's Lowered CATS Standards Remained Relatively High

    Over at Prichard, Susan Weston has been looking into the lowering of academic standards in Kentucky circa 2007.

    You will recall, that is the time Kentucky was switching from the old CATS to the new (and not improved) CATS - thanks largely to NCLB's strictures screwing up a' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:23am EST

  • Former Male Principal repeatedly investigated for inappropriate conduct

    This from Adam Walser at WHAS-TV by way of KSBA:

    New allegations arise about Male High principal's pastWHAS11 has learned that Jefferson County Public Schools reprimanded David Wilson more than three years before recent serious incidents led to his early retirement.
    We got a tip from a' [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:57am EDT

  • Quick Hits

    Federal data shows a third of states lowered achievement standards: Many states lowered their standards on state math or reading tests from 2005 to 2007, according to data compiled by the Department of Education. While a number of states adopted stricter standards during the same time period, "overall, standards were" [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:26am EDT

  • Turnover in principalship focus of research

    This from Education Week by way of KSBA:

    ...Data available from a handful of states suggest that only about half of beginning principals remain in the same job five years later, and that many leave the principalship altogether when they go.

    “I talk to a lot of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:23am EDT

  • BS from GS

    ...but no mention of what Kentucky really needs to help avoid this annual drama. Barring a political miracle - legislative leaders who actually want to solve long-standing revenue problems - Kentucky will still not have what it needs; a new tax code.

    This from Speaker Stumbo in C-J:
    [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:10am EDT

  • School News from Around Kentucky

    Mountjoy resigns education secretary post: Helen MountjoyKentucky Education Secretary Helen Mountjoy has resigned her position effective Nov. 30, citing a long commute from her home in Owensboro and a desire to spend more time with her family, Gov. Steve Beshear’s office announced Wednesday. Mountjoy will continue to serve as Beshear’s [...]

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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:31am EDT

  • Thriller 2009















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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:45pm EDT

  • Holiday at EKU

    We got 99% highly qualified teachers in Kentucky.
    But why is it we've still got high schools
    that have a 50% graduation rate?
    --Terry Holliday

    EKU student Jason Williams asks a question of Commissioner Terry Holliday.
    In background left is Holliday's wife Denise [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:38pm EDT

  • Holliday to Revise Mission at KDE

    Citing a declining budget and a staff that is 60% smaller than it was in the 1990s, today Commissioner Terry Holliday called for KDE to redefine itself.

    I am asking staff to look closely at revising our mission statement and to review the work they are doing to ensure [...]

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:23pm EDT

  • Commish Pays a Visit - 203 Rocks

    Well boys and girls, it's been a very busy week - and that has made it hard to blog.

    One of the gifts one receives when achieving a tenure-track position is a bunch of advisees. Whatever time scholarship fails to consume gets sucked up very effectively by the advising' [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • From the Nations Cartoonists

    This from Mike Thompson:
    This from Signe Wilkinson:
    This from Ben Sargent:
    This from Gary Garvel:
    [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 9:26pm EDT

  • Keeneland !




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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:24pm EDT

  • Education chief: Overhaul teacher training

    I believe that education is
    the civil rights issue of our generation.
    And if you care about promoting opportunity
    and reducing inequality,
    about promoting civic knowledge
    and participation,
    the classroom is the place to start.
    -- Arne Duncan

    This from the Chronicle of Higher Education:

    Secretary's' [...]

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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:07pm EDT

  • Quick Hits

    Wisconsin teachers find success with responsive classrooms: Some Wisconsin elementary-school teachers are learning that how they teach is just as important as what they teach through a new curriculum that emphasizes social, emotional and academic growth in teaching core classes. Teachers are being trained in responsive classrooms, where lessons will [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:06pm EDT

  • Henry Clay English teacher arrested

    This from H-L:

    FACES DRUG AND ALCOHOL CHARGES

    PLUS CHILD ENDANGERMENT

    An English teacher at Henry Clay High School was arrested Friday morning by Lexington police on drug and alcohol charges, and she was later charged with child endangerment after she told jail officials that she [...]

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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:49am EDT

  • School News from Around Kentucky

    Lawmakers - New schools a local responsibility: Some lawmakers say they want Kentucky school districts to invest more in their oldest and most dilapidated schools rather than wait for additional state money. (H-L)

    Farris - Some children being left behind: After seeing the latest No Child Left Behind [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:16am EDT

  • Legislators, BOE balk at Stumbo's Plan to Raid School Funds

    This from the Jessamine Journal, Cartoon by Marc Murphy in C-J:


    Ky. budget deficit to occupy General Assembly

    House Speaker Greg Stumbo’s plan for state lawmakers to consider reaching into local school system’s contingency funds has met a bump in the [...]

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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:09am EDT

  • Former Teacher Says Life 'Ruined' by Student Sex Claims, Will Sue

    This from ABC News (Video): Interview on GMA.


    Acquitted Nicole Howell Denied Sex With Student From Start; Didn't Stop Arrest, Trial

    Former teacher Nicole Howell was found not guilty last week of having had a sexual relationship with a student, but that did not stop the rumor from' [...]

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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 7:59am EDT

  • Stumbo's Historically Stinko Idea

    Scorecards! Get Your Scorecards! You can't tell a Stumbo from a Williams without a Scorecard!
    Continuing the too-oft dubious tradition of the Kentucky legislature this week, House Speaker Greg Stumbo, (D) Prestonsburg, sounded more like another infamous legislator we know - (R) Burkesville.

    Stumbo proposed the idea of recapturing' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:36pm EDT

  • Moving up in math!

    This from Susan Weston at the Prichard Committee:
    2009 NAEP scores released today show Kentucky fourth graders performing at the national average in mathematics. Given our history of being behind in math, it is a sweet, sweet thing to see. Two snapshots of the data are below... We've got' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 4:40pm EDT

  • Charter advocates challenge school finance systems in Arizona and North Carolina

    This from ACCESS:
    Charter school advocates in Arizona and North Carolina filed lawsuits last month alleging that their respective states have provided inadequate and inequitable funding for charters. The cases are the most recent examples of an emerging trend of charter school groups initiating education finance litigations.

    The [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 4:28pm EDT

  • Gov Beshear Launches Initiative to Transform Education in Kentucky

    "Twenty years ago we made a start - a ground-breaking approach that drew the attention and praise of the nation. Today that mission continues... Today I'm calling upon our state and our people to recommit ourselves to assuring the future of our children."--Governor Steve Beshear
    TEK task force will be' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:12pm EDT

  • Sunday Drive




    [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:11am EDT

  • What?!

    This from the Middlesboro Daily News:
    Teacher charged with assaulting student
    A high school teacher ... has been charged with assaulting his student during school, according to law enforcement. Jack Spiers, who teaches Spanish at Thomas Walker High School in Ewing, Va. was charged with assault and battery [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 2:45pm EDT

  • Gov and Commish take to the Air to Promote Education

    This from KSBA:

    Governor schedules

    fly-around education tour

    Gov. Steve Beshear’s office has released his schedule for next week’s fly-around tour of the state, where he will talk up education reform at 10 different locations. The three-day tour will include multiple press conferences and “town hall” sessions in two locations, [...]

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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 2:33pm EDT
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